Richard V. Burkhauser
Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor of Policy Analysis
Cornell University

Richard V. Burkhauser is the Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor of Policy Analysis in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University. Burkhauser has published widely in the area of United States and European social security retirement and disability policy. His most recent publications include: with John Cawley, "Beyond BMI: The Value of More Accurate Measures of Fatness and Obesity in Social Science Research," Journal of Health Economic, 27 (2)(March 2008): 519-529 and with Kosali Simon, "Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?" Risk Management and Insurance Review (Forthcoming). He was a member of the 2003 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods of the Social Security Administration Actuaries, a U.S. Senate appointee to the Ticket to Work/Work Incentives Improvement Act Advisory Board (2000-2002), as well as a member of the Technical Panel of the 1994-1996 Advisory Council on Social Security and the 1994-1995 National Academy of Social Insurance Panel on Disability Policy Reform. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.